Perhaps we need something like hnforms or startupforms, to help founders?

My hot take: if a founder can't spin up a simple, self-hosted webform of some sort, I'm already wary of their technical skills.

Spinning it up is not the problem. You want to spend the time to throughly test it (or have your agent swarm test it) so you don’t waste the opportunity of having HN input?

I’d be wary of a founder with such bad NIH

I would hope a founder wouldn’t waste time on home-brewing their own web form when there are tons of off the shelf ones that all have no discernible difference.

It would be like writing your own email servers or calendar software. It would be a distraction at best.

I would let them do the opposite. I would make hnforms (maybe mdforms) based on the following idea.

Write a form in .md (even tell an llm to do it) and just put it online.

Only applicable if their core business is form-adjacent.

Web forms are simple like that slack notification thing is simple.

Slightly agree, however I prefer third party forms as it usually avoids a bunch of the BS with bot submissions, etc.

This is an alarming and sad story.

I wonder if some simple technology, like underwater microphones can be used to detect whales. Make it regulated, such that ships must have such equipment active. Another idea would be to place stations, that track whales.

I agree, OLED can emit red light only. However, I am questioning whether that means there really is no need for red-only displays. As that mode on conventional displays (even on OLED) wastes pixels and is, more importantly, optional.

For the past few weeks, I had trouble falling asleep. Mostly due to late night screen use. Even though I use blue-light filtering glasses and night-time mode on my screen.

Then I thought to myself, why do I need to fight with this? Why cant I just buy a screen that has only red pixels (LEDs) on it?

So, I made a google form to check for interest in such a display. Or just comment here. Would you be interested in buying a display that uses only red pixels (no blue or green light) to reduce eye strain and improve sleep quality, even if it means limited color accuracy?

> (no blue or green light)

Coincidentally, i saw several headlines yesterday (now long gone from my news feed) claiming that blue light filters are not nearly as effective as once believed. It may be worth researching the current status on that info before committing to a red-only screen. (There's no way i'd buy one, in any case.)

The "pixels" of a screen are composed of red, green, and blue sub-pixels. Software filtering mostly reduces the blue and green light emitted, but does not eliminate it. And the sensors in our eyes, the rods, are less sensitive to red color, when compared to blue or green. This means that looking at a red-light only monitor would be closer to "night" vision.

FWIW, iOS already allows color filtering to display only red (or any other color).

I believe macOS does too; and then there's the venerable f.lux, which not only has warmer tinting but also "Darkroom mode" (red only).

That is a valid argument against. A conventional display can simulate a red-only display, while the reverse is not possible.

However, there are two technical points, and one non-technical point, I would like to reply with.

First, as in my other comment, software filtering mostly reduces the blue and green light emitted, but does not eliminate it.

Second, these blue and green pixels become "useless". A monochromatic red-pixel display could have higher resolutions, or lower complexity and power use.

Third, and the biggest reason (in my opinion), is that it is not optional. A red-pixel only display, does not allow you to change "the warmness" or adjust the colors. Instead it forces its own color mode.

All I can say is that 347 tools sounds like too much. There are programming languages that define thousands of functions in their standard library. Yet, it is well-known that all you need in theory is just a select few. Lisp in particular, is one example where the entire language is based around just a few primitive functions, upon which all other functionality is built around.

> We're super excited to help new startups build data that were never possible before with the extreme high cost of data collection :D

I am super interested in making solutions to help startups exchange data. Especially for niche data. So if you are interested I'd love to get in touch.

Yeah totally! Drop us a note at info@voltairlabs.com ?

Not just for the UK. The EU suffers of a data sharing problem too. Generally, the academia, industry, government, or even just companies, are reluctant to share their data.

Even if they do make it available, they restrict it to "personal use" via their ToS. Which is VERY inhibiting for startups, inventors, professionals, hackers, hobbyists, and even other companies.

This is exactly the problem I identified and am looking to solve with my startup.

Great. But look at the query feature of OSM. Try it. At higher zoom levels like 15, querying for features at the same coordinates as your example reveals nearby features. Like hotel buildings, post offices, recycling points, etc. The nominatin format is not enough. What is more, an extended feature set could be used together with an LLM. I am very interested in that, so, feel free to reach out to me if you want to discuss more.

Who are your customers? Consumer or business?

Both - we're building APIs ultimately designed for AI agents and LLMs that need trustworthy place data and that includes cases from enterprise to personal people's agents

Look up "tarpit ideas" - ideas that sound good on paper but do not grow into startups

The idea lacks a pressing need for users to join and invest into a high-value profile